The University of Maine Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) project is a joint effort of Fogler Library and the Graduate School. Our goals are "to improve graduate education, increase sharing of knowledge, help universities build their information infrastructure, and extend the value of digital libraries," in keeping with those of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, a national initiative of which the University of Maine is a member.

This online collection features the final theses and dissertations approved by the Graduate School of the University of Maine.

For more information about finding additional theses and dissertations or obtaining copies of those not available electronically, see Fogler Library's Subject Guide on Theses & Dissertations.

Questions can also be directed to Fogler Library's Special Collections Department by phone at (207) 581-1686 or email at um.library.spc @ maine.edu.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Holocene Fluctuations of Istorvet Ice Cap, Liverpool Land, East Greenland, Amanda Rose Lusas

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The Human Equation in Forest Resources: Incorporating Social Science Methodologies to Study Forest Landowners and Researchers, Patrick William Lyons

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Development of a Scale Model Wind Turbine for Testing of Offshore Floating Wind Turbine Systems, Heather Rae Martin

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Learning to Discuss Literature Online: Where Technology Design and Instruction Intersect, Kenneth H. Martin

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LD 291: Teaching Practices and Pedagogy of Fourth, Seventh and Eighth Grade Teachers, Lorrine A. Masterman

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Neurotrophin Receptor-Interacting Melanoma-Associated Antigen Protein Activates Nuclear Factor Kappa Beta Repressing Bone Morphogenic Protein Induced Apoptosis Through Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor Expression, Nicholas N. Matluk

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Improving Teacher Practice: Teachers' Perspectives on Capacity-Building Initiatives in Literacy, Joseph C. Mattos

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Global Marathon Man, Joseph Michael Mayers

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Development of Supplemental Resistance Method for the Design of Drilled Shaft Rock Sockets, James Gregory McCarthy

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Evaluating Factors Influencing the Life History of the American Lobster (Homarus armericanus) in the Gulf of Maine, Marissa D. McMahan

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Pathogenesis of the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus-Like Disease of the BXSB.Yaa Mouse, Caroline McPhee

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Anna Log: Stumped, Allison Melton

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Design, Fabrication, and Testing of SAW Resonators on Quartz for the Detection of Hydrogen Fluoride, Bennett J. Meulendyk

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Targeted Treatment in a Community Model, Isaac J. Michaud

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Dissecting Dexter: Television Portrayal of Self-Disclosure as a Relational Control Tool, Jeremiah Miner

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Feasibility of Certifying the Gulf of Maine Shrimp Trap Fishery as Sustainable, Cinamon Moffett

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Outcast Men: American Citizens in Upper Canada and Van Dieman's Land, Jenna L. Morency

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Answer-Seeking and Idea-Constructing During Collaborative Active-Learning Activities in a Physics Laboratory, Casey E. Murphy

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Crenulation Cleavage Development and the Influence of Rock Microstructure on Crustal Seismic Anisotropy, Felice Maria Johanna Naus-Thijssen

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Incorporating Biodiversity Impact into Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Woodchips for Bioethanol Production, Binod Neupane

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Lower Limb Acceleration During the Block-Start vs. Selected Power and Strength Exercises, Thomas A. Ordelt

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Control Mechanisms in Nutrient Dynamics and Biological Productivity in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean, Artur Piotr Palacz

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Spatial and Temporal Variability of Antarctic Accumulation Rates, Monica Palmer

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Do Relationships with Helpful and Not-Helpful Teachers Make a Difference? Perspectives from Nine At-Risk Adolescents, Emanuel Pariser

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Developing Methods to Monitor Seabird Response to Disturbance on a Coastal Maine Island, Monika Parsons

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Auditory Event-Related Potential in Neonates and Young Infants Prenatally Exposed to Methadone, Jonathan Allan Paul

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The Influence of Commercial Thinning on Stand- and Tree-Level Mortality Patterns of Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea) and Red Spruce (Picea rubens) Forests in Maine That Have or Have Not Received Precommercial Thinning, Joseph Robert Pekol

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The Extended Kalman-Consensus Filter, Andrew Pellett

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Examining the Role of Specific Virulence Mechanisms During Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Infection in a Zebrafish Model of Cystic Fibrosis, Ryan T. Phennicie

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Economic Analyses of Residential Development and Land Conservation Trends, Jennifer A. Plowden

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Multi-Objective Optimization of Laser-Welded Steel Sandwich Panels Using a Genetic Algorithm, Jeffrey D. Poirier

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Forest Succession and Amphibian Migrations: Implications for Landscape Connectivity, Viorel Dan Popescu

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Paleoclimate Insights from ¹⁰Be Surface-Exposure Dating of Moraine Sequences in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, Aaron E. Putnam

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The Development and Validation of a New Smartphone Based Non-visual Spatial Interface for Learning Indoor Layouts, Monoj Kumar Raja

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Soil Drainage Class Influences on Soil Carbon in a New England Forested Watershed, Jay Edwards Raymond

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Nutrient Distributions in the Gulf of Maine: An Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Dissolved Inorganic Nitrate and Silicate, Nathan D. Rebuck

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Discovery of Novel Pain Genes Using Systems Genetics, Jill M. Recla

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Phenology at the Bear Brook Watershed in Maine: Foliar Chemistry and Morphology, Erin Joelle Redding

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The Efficacy of Three Different Vitamin D Supplementation Protocols after the Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Procedure, Joanna Fichthorn Rosebush

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Fractal Analysis and Thermal-Elastic Modeling of a Subvolcanic Magmatic Breccia: The Shatter Zone, Mount Desert Island, Maine, Samuel Geoffrey Roy

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Event Discovery and Classification in Space-Time Series: A Case Study for Storms, Avinash Rude

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A Study of the Inhibition of Cellulases by Lignin Fragments, Gamini Rupasingha

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An Acoustical Approach to the Study of Marine Particle Dynamics Near the Bottom Boundary Layer, Clementina R. Russo

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Improving Lowbush Blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Ait.) Growth and Development through Optimal Mineral Nutrition, James Patrick Madrid Santiago

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How Green Is the Gulf of Maine: How Have the Dynamics of CDOM and Phytoplankton Influenced Remotely-Sensed Estimates of Chlorophyll A?, Michael J. Sauer

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Assesing Borehole Geophysical Data by Simulating Flow in Heterogeneous Aquifers, Joseph Russell Sawdey

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Terminus Changes of Tidewater Outlet Glaciers in Greenland: Environmental Controls and Links to Glacial Earthquakes, Kristin Meredith Schild

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Detecting Exposure to Surface Water Contaminants Non-lethally Using Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Scales, Daniel Gerhard Skall

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Optical Signatures of Particle Size and Dynamics in the Marine Environment, Wayne Homer Slade

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Growing Local: Wild Maine Blueberry Muffins, Jennifer Marie Smith-Mayo

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Identifying and Addressing Specific Student Difficulties in Advanced Thermal Physics, Trevor I. Smith

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Ink Setting Fundamentals a Focus on Ink Parameters, Jong Suk Sonn

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Economic Decision-Making and Lake Management Policy: Two Empirical Analyses, Ann Eleanor Speers

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Nanofabrication and Testing of an Instrumented Nanopore for DNA Sensing, Patrick S. Spinney

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Students' Qualitative Understanding of the Relationship between the Graph of a Function and the Graphs of Its Derivatives, John R. Stahley

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Electronic Transport Properties of Ruthenium and Ruthenium Dioxide Thin Films, Michael M. Steeves

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Characterizing the Behavior and Properties of Nano Cellulose Reinforced Ultra High Performance Concrete, Kimberly Marie Stephenson

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The Dynamic Interaction between Internal Waves and Krill: Hotspot Generation in the Gulf of Maine, Peter B. Stetson

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Material Properties of Wood Ash-Filled and Wollastonite-Filled Polyproplyene Wood Plastic Composites (WPCS), Jason Stevens

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The Relationship between Value Systems in Art and Trends in Art and Technology, Abigail Stiers

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Innovation in Maine's Logging Industry, Ian J. Stone

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Effect of Strain Rate and Hygrothermal Environment in Wood Plastic Composite Sheet Piles, Sandeep Tamrakar

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The Role of Notch and Transforming Growth Factor ß (TGF-ß) in Smooth Muscle Cell Differentiation, Yuefeng Tang

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Human Dimensions of a School-Centered, Community-Based Environmental Monitoring Research (CBEMR) Project Focused on Private Drinking Water Wells in New England, Teresa E. Thornton

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A "Clearcut Line": Canada and Colombia, 1892-1979, Stefano Tijerina

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The Role of Breeding Preparation in Migration Phenology and Seasonal Interactions in Migratory Passerines, Christopher Tonra

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3-D Analysis of Energy Dissipation Mechanisms in Steel Fiber Reinforced Reactive Powder Concrete, Kevin Trainor

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Adsorption and Diffusion of Light Hydrocarbons in DDR Zeolite, Adam Vidoni

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Forms, Distribution, and Potential Availability of Phosphorous from Poultry Manure, Heidi Maria Waldrip

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Identifying Sex Differences in a Rat Model of Ethanol Withdrawal, Shawn Allen Walls

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Response of FRP Arches to Concrete Filling Loads, Harold J. Walton

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Influence of Neighborhood Structure on Growth in Northern Red Oak - Eastern White Pine Stands, Justin Waskiewicz

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The Metabolic Response to Graded Exercise Performed on an Underwater Treadmill vs. a Traditional Treadmill, Philip E. Watson

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Recovering from a Lost Community: The Connection of Dow Air Force Base to Bangor Maine, and How Bangor Survived the Closing of Dow, William W. Wentworth

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Finding Common Ground: Exploring Meaningful Incentives for Family Forest Owners to Encourage Public Access to Private Lands in Maine, Martha Charlotte Willand

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Energy Balance and Snow Melt on the Kahiltna Glacier, Central Alaska Range, Dominic Winski

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Multiple Lateral Field Excited Sensors on a Single Substrate, Shane Winters

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Beauty and Double Duty: Elizabeth Hawes and the Politics of Fashion and Women's Work, Jennie Woodard

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Identities' Incidents: Fragments of a Subject's Trans/formations, Erin Workman

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Notch Function in Mouse Folliculogenesis, Jingxia Xu

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Effect of Channel Estimation Error on Performance of Physical Layer Network Coding, Keyvan Yasami

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The Relationship Between Personality Type and Marital Satisfaction, Laura L. Yoder

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Quantifying Diatom Aspirations: Mechanical Properties of Chain-Forming Species, Ashley M. Young

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Experimental and Theoretical Approaches for Wide Mass Range Biomarker Discovery Using Fourier Transform-Ion Cyclotron Resonance (FT-ICR) Mass Spectrometers Coupled to External Ion Sources, Behrooz Zekavat

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An Integrated Approach to Location Modeling, Zhong Zhao

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Acetic Acid Removal from Pre-pulping Wood Extract, Aymn Abdulrahman

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Characterization of DHHC Cysteine-Rich Domain-Containing Proteins in Dictyostelium Discoideum, Joel I. Amburg

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Quantifying Surface Water Nitrate Concentrations that Elicit Diatom Community Changes in Lakes Across the Rocky Mountains, Heather Ann Arnett

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Moving from Middle to High School: At-Risk Student Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Transition Activities, Pamela L. Astbury

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Diatom-Driven Carbon Export During the North Atlantic Spring Bloom: Coupled Physical-Biological Modelling and Variational Data Assimilation, Witold J. Bagniewski

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The Effects of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds on Nucleotide Excision Repair in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Liver, Gregory Daniel Ballard

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Gauss Composition and Bhargava's Cube Law, Adam Barker-Hoyt

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Impact Test Development for Large-Scale Composite Hull Panels for the "Mako" Patrol Craft, Katherine L. Beaumont

Impact Test Development for Large-Scale Composite Hull Panels for the "Mako" Patrol Craft, Katherine L. Beaumont

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The Impact of Hemoglobin Expression on Cardiovascular Physiology and Thermal Tolerance of Antarctic Notothenioid Fishes, Jody M. Beers

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The Spiny Lobster Fishery in Nicaragua: A Socio-ecological System Approach to Resource Management, Rodolfo Chang Bennett

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Stand Dynamics and Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Natural Disturbance in an Acadian Old-Growth Reserve, Stacy Jo Birch

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Climate Investigations Using Ice Sheet and Mass Balance Models with Emphasis on North American Glaciation, Sean David Birkel

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How Business Climate and Political Climate Influence Economic Growth and Economic Development in the American States, James H. Black

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Multiple Perspectives on Student Solution Methods for Air Resistance Problems, Katrina E. Black